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CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-12356 BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) Command Injection Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities established the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog as a living list of known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that carry significant risk to the federal enterprise. BOD 22-01 requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to remediate identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect FCEB networks against active threats. See the BOD 22-01 Fact Sheet for more information. Although BOD 22-01 only applies to FCEB agencies, CISA strongly urges all organizations to reduce their exposure to cyberattacks by prioritizing timely remediation of Catalog vulnerabilities as part of their vulnerability management practice. CISA will continue to add vulnerabilities to the catalog that meet the specified criteria.

CISA released eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on December 19, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-354-01 Hitachi Energy RTU500 series CMU ICSA-24-354-02 Hitachi Energy SDM600 ICSA-24-354-03 Delta Electronics DTM Soft ICSA-24-354-04 Siemens User Management Component ICSA-24-354-05 Tibbo AggreGate Network Manager ICSA-24-354-06 Schneider Electric Accutech Manager ICSA-24-354-07 Schneider Electric Modicon Controllers ICSMA-24-354-01 Ossur Mobile Logic Application CISA encourages users and administrators to review newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations.

[This is a Guest Diary by Sahil Shaikh, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]

The number of DDoS-related incidents targeting APIs have jumped by 30x compared with traditional Web assets, suggesting that attackers see the growing API landscape as the more attractive target.

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A 32-year-old was sentenced on criminal hacking charges related to a data-stealing malware operation.